Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
CyclOl,Rtllns.


In these times, when knowledge on
subjects has been greatly increased,
and common people must needs know
many things that the learned never
thought of century ago, dictionaries
and reference books have come to be
prime necessity for every intelligent
man. The morning newspaper, the
evening call, or the casual coIversa-
tion will start questions in science, in
history, in geography. which can be
answered only at great cost and by
long and laborious research if original
authority must be consulted. One
must needs have always within reach
collection of answers to new ques.
tions, classified, complete, and reliable
enough to meet the demands of every
day and every position in life. A good
cyclopadia which takes in the whole
circle of human knowledge, which shall
be clear, concise, and an authority on
each subject treated, has become indis-
pensable.
There are many of these works being
pressed on public attention, some of
them very valuable and well adapted
to this or that class--.some which are
foreign reprints from obsolete works
and not adapted to this age or country.
One or two are miserable frauds, made
up of a hodge-podge mass of matter
stolen from old works or transposed
from new ones by unsllilled hands, and
are tissue of blunders, treating sub
jects in brief and insufficient manner,
and omitting thousands of subjects
which properly belong toa cyclopadia.
There is also class of works which
relate to forms OF law, business, eti-
Quette, ETC., more generally known as
self-instructorS, but often misnamed
cyclopedias. OF this latter class the
public have had a glut for year or
two.
Jonnson's Universal Cyclopadia has
just been thoroughly revised at an ex-
pense of over $4,000. This Cyclo-
psedia, under the chief editorial charge
of the distinguished American scholars,
Pres. Barnard of Columbia College, and
Prof. Guyot, the eminent Swiss natu-
ralist and geographer, is an entirely
original work. both as relates to its
plan and its subject-matter, and even
in the structure of its articles. These
eminent scholars conceived the idea Of
| dividing the work into thirty-three de-
partments, placing at the head of each
a responsible editor, who should have
sole charge and be responsible for the
manner in which the work was done.
A systematic course has been employed
in its construction throughout. the aim
| having been to cover q much wider
field in science, literature, and art, and
to make the work an authority on each
| topic treated. The most eminent spe-
cialists, both in Europe and America,
have been employed as contributrrs to
its pages. II will be found to answer
more questions in it's biographical, his
torical, geographical. chemical, medi-
cal, and mechanical departments than
any work of the same character. 1t
will be found very full on American
subjects, and to contain more and bet
ter information than can be found in
an ordinary library of ten thousand
volumes, and as ready u book of refer
ence as Webster's Dictionary, and to
hold the same relation to the facts of
history, science, literature, and miscel-
laneous subjects which that work holds
to words. 1t being set in slightly
smaller type and on a larger page, with
more pages to the book, it contains
more type-matter in eight volumes
than the American Cyclop;edia. A
careful examination will show that
Johnson's contains later and more full
information, and is better authority on
the subjects treated. and in much more
convenient form, the any other.
We are informed that the publishers
of Johnson's CA. j. johnson & Co., II
Great Jones St., New York; are CON
stantly replacing Appletons' known as
The American) and Scribner's Britain
MICA with their work, though, they
cost much more than Johnson's; and
that they are selling said exchanges, as
well as the Peoples, atipanic prices.
For information address w. Il. Demps-
ter, Huron, ID. L.